What might such an insidious-sounding head look like under a microscope? Not very nice, as it happens. One extreme closeup from 2017 reveals the scolex of a Taenia solium tapeworm, and it's just ...

Tapeworms are flatworms that look a bit like ribbons. Their bodies are made up of segments, and each segment is about the size of a grain of rice. Adult tapeworms can grow to be 30 feet ...

Tapeworm eggs look like little grains of rice or seeds. If they hatch, the larvae can sometimes crawl up your intestines and live there. This causes cold-like symptoms, such as coughing.

Scientists Look to Tapeworm for Drug Model. By ABC News. March 11, 2003, 10:44 AM. ... It would be a little like keeping your footing on a slippery bank during a flash flood.

After being unraveled, the tapeworm ended up being 5-and-a-half feet long. Bahn recalled how the patient said he felt the worm “wiggling out” and felt like “his guts were coming out” as he ...

A California man who ate sushi every day ended up with a 5-foot-plus-long tapeworm inhabiting his body. ... is what looks like this giant, long tapeworm,” Bahn said on the podcast.

It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites.

Janine Caira: It looks just like the Cat in the Hat’s hat. One of the groups of tapeworms that my lab works on has hooks, so they look kind of vicious, but they’re actually pretty awesome.